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The camera then moves to the clear panel on the front of the pizza box, which are usually designed to give you an enticing glimpse of your delicious meal.

But instead, the nausea-inducing video shows hundreds of disgusting maggots crawling all over the pizza.

The video was uploaded to Tesco's Facebook page, and a staff worker quickly responded to Ollie's complaint (left), expressing shock at the video featuring live maggots (right, a stock picture)

Maggots are fly larvae, and hatch after a fly has laid eggs. However it's not clear how a fly managed to lay eggs on the pizza as it was still in its packaging when Ollie went to eat it

A Tesco spokesman said: 'We have robust food quality processes in place during the preparation and packaging of our products, so we were surprised to hear about this issue. We will be looking into this with our supplier to understand what happened.'